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Rediscovering Religion as an Adult

As a historian of American religion, I’ve always been fascinated by the ways religion has changed over time–how it’s shaped society and been shaped by

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Poemed and Pronouned

As regular readers of my Twelve contributions know, I read to my daughters every night from the diaries I kept when I was their age.

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Surprising Evidences

We are in quite a moment in the United States (though the world is looking on curiously and even anxiously).  The launching of an impeachment

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Questions are the Answer

After World War II, colleges were full of GIs securing the benefits of the 1944 Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (the “GI Bill”). Benjamin Samuel Bloom, a

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The Story of Academy

Out in the middle of nowhere, the old white frame building is all that remains of a heart-felt dream that, as an answer to prayer,

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Metamorphosis

My kids caught an obscene number of tadpoles this week. The fattest tadpoles I have ever seen. They look like little green egg yolks —

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